Sunday, May 30, 2010

Duality (Part 1)

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Ookay, so it is once more 4am in the morning, and I have absolutely no idea why I am still awake. Anyhow, being this late in the night mean...
Tuesday, May 25, 2010

Late-Night Auto-Writing

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Okay, so it's finally dark out, the night is fast progressing into the deepest form of darkness, and I'm sort of floating around in ...
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Friday, May 14, 2010

Half-hearted Rant...

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If I fail at my career of being a researcher, I should probably go be a counsellor or psychic. My preternatural ability to intuitively sens...
Tuesday, May 11, 2010

The Matter with /var

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In spite of what is suggests, /var actually contains much system-critical data and should never sit on its own [small] partition. All kind...

Remounting for read-write

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To remount / as read-write from the console, apply mount -n -o remount,rw / as root .
Saturday, May 08, 2010

Exaile and mp3

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Modern Ubuntu distributions use Exaile as the music player. The catch is that it doesn't support the mp3 format out of the box. To de...

Balmer's Peak

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Okay, so a couple of days ago I was mumbling something about not updating this place so much due to the general lack of publishable events f...
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Thursday, May 06, 2010

Bag Of Happenings

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Feels like I've not really written anything here in ages. Oh well, life happened and things are always in a state of flux, which is pro...
Tuesday, April 27, 2010

Cache ≠ Can Throw Away Safely

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As tempting as it is to remove /var/cache/ or to shift it to tmpfs , never do it because ``cache'' doesn't equate to ``can thro...
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Tuesday, April 20, 2010

Someone

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Man, this song had been stuck in my head for years , and I finally found what it was:
Sunday, April 18, 2010

A Mild Explanation

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Updates here are getting far and few, and by no means am I ever intending to ditch this blog. But I would be lying through my teeth if I sa...
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Friday, April 09, 2010

Day of the Endless Run

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Man... each time a week passes in real life, I feel as though I've aged by ten weeks. So much to do, and so little time to do them all-...
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Friday, April 02, 2010

Architecture Updates

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If you manage to find me here, that's great! Because I've modified the links to my blogs. The_Laptop Writes... and The_Laptop Wrot...
Thursday, April 01, 2010

Ronin 2

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Time to be Ronin once more. The path ahead is strange and rocky, and the infectious mirth of the successful is suffocating enough that it s...
Monday, March 29, 2010

Why So Serious?

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The transition from college student life into a formal adult working life can be rather disorienting at times, as I soon found out. The mos...
Thursday, March 18, 2010

Non-Greedy Searching in Vim

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So Regexes are very powerful. Until you want a non-greedy matching in Vim, then you'll go ``what?''. Here's the incantation...

Juicy Details

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A friend asked me over IM for juicy details (without much qualification), to which I replied with the following. Her succulent flesh glisten...
Tuesday, March 16, 2010

Blank Mind

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I'm starting to find my writing dull, tasteless and generally of a quality that baffles even the most mediocre writers. I don't see...
Monday, March 15, 2010

Snowball

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First, a confession. If one were to be following what I have been writing here, there might be an impression that I am one bitter and sorry...
Sunday, March 14, 2010

On Extra-Martial Infidelities

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Damn it! I've deleted quite a few rants that I should have completed, but for one reason or another, I could not complete them before I...